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First Women's Right's Convention
The first women's rights convention was held in Seneca Falls, NY. 12 resolutions were adopted demanding equal treatment of women, such as voting rights.
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"Ain't I a Woman?"
Sojourner Truth, a former slave, delivers her famous "Ain't I a Woman?" speech at a women's rights convention in Akron, Ohio. -
Intro of Federal Women's Suffrage Amendment
Senator S.C. Pomeroy of Kansas introduces a federal women’s suffrage amendment in Congress. It gets rejected -
National Association of Colored Women is formed
With the help of Anna Julia Cooper, Mary Church Terrell, and Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, the National Association of Colored Women was formed to bring equality to women of color. Mary became the president. -
NAOWS is organized
National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage was organized by women who opposed the women's suffrage movement. -
Theodore Roosevelt supports the movement
Theodore Roosevelt's Bull Moose Party becomes the first major political party to back women's suffrage. -
Formation of the Congressional Union for Women Suffrage
Alice Paul and Lucy Burns create the Congressional Union for Women Suffrage. It's main goal was to secure the constitution amendment for the national right for women to vote. -
Suffragists organize a parade in Washington, DC
Suffragists organize the Woman Suffrage Procession down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC. it was the first public demonstration in the nation’s capital for women’s suffrage. -
First woman elected to the House of Representatives
Jeannette Rankin of Montana is the first woman elected to the House of Representatives. Woodrow Wilson states that the Democratic Party will support the movement. -
World War I ends in November, Theodore calls urgency
In January, after much bad press about the treatment of Alice Paul and the other imprisoned women, and the country still at war in World War I, President Wilson announces that women's suffrage is urgently needed as a "war measure." -
The Woman Suffrage Amendment is introduced in Congress in 1878
The Woman Suffrage Amendment, originally written by Susan B. Anthony and introduced in Congress in 1878, is passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate. It is then sent to the states for ratification. Wisconsin and Illinois are the first states to ratify. -
The 19th Amendment to the Constitution is certified as law
The 19th Amendment to the Constitution is certified as law, guaranteeing that “the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.” -
Formation of the League of Women Voters forms
The League of Women Voters forms -
Basic Goals are Accepted
Americans came to accept some of the basic goals of the Sixties feminists: equal pay for equal work, an end to domestic violence, curtailment of severe limits on women in managerial jobs, an end to sexual harassment, and sharing of responsibility for housework and child rearing -
Third Wave Feminism
feminists came online and reached a global audience with blogs and e-zines, they broadened their goals, focusing on abolishing gender-role stereotypes and expanding feminism to include women with diverse racial and cultural identities